Shabir Ally is a Canadian

preacher A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or homilies on religious topics to an assembly of people. Less common are preachers who preach on the street, or those whose message is not necessarily religious, but who preach components such as a ...

. As of 2020 he was the President of the Islamic Information & Dawah Centre International in Toronto. He is best known for his contextual interpretation of the

Qur'an The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , sing. ...

ic verses, and justification in similar expressions within the

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. A study concluded that Ally has contributed to the da’wah field by adopting preaching methods targeted at both the Muslim population and the non-Muslim population.

Biography

Shabir Ally was born in

Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

, and moved to

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with his family in 1978. He received his B.A. in Religious Studies from

Laurentian University Laurentian University (french: Université Laurentienne), officially the Laurentian University of Sudbury, is a mid-sized Bilingualism in Canada, bilingual public university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, incorporated on March 28, 1960. Lau ...

and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

. His PhD thesis was on the

exegesis Exegesis ( ; from the Ancient Greek, Greek , from , "to lead out") is a critical explanation or interpretation (logic), interpretation of a text. The term is traditionally applied to the interpretation of Bible, Biblical works. In modern usage, ...

of the

(

Tafsir Tafsir ( ar, تفسير, tafsīr ) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran. An author of a ''tafsir'' is a ' ( ar, مُفسّر; plural: ar, مفسّرون, mufassirūn). A Quranic ''tafsir'' attempts to provide elucidation, explanation, in ...

Publications

Ally is an author, and has published the following: *''Reply to Robert Morey's source of Islam theories'', Riyadh, Saudi Arabia : Dar Al-Hadyan, 1997. *''Is Jesus God? The Bible Says No!'', Riyadh, Saudi Arabia : Dar Al-Hadyan, 1998. *''101 questions to ask visiting Jehovah's Witnesses'', Toronto, Canada : Islamic Information & Daʼwah Centre International, 1997. A second volume is entitled ''Another five questions to keep you going''. *''Yahweh, Jehovah or Allah : which is God's real name?'', Toronto, Canada : Al-Attique, 1999. *''101 clear contradictions in the Bible'', Toronto, Canada : Al-Attique, 2001. *''What God said about eating pork : & issue for Muslims / Christian dialogue'', Toronto, Canada : Al-Attique, 2003. *''Science in the Qur'an'', Toronto, Canada : Al-Attique, 2003. *''Common questions people ask about Islam'', Toronto, Canada : Islamic Information & Da`wah Centre International, 2008. *''Christianity Vs. Islam : A Muslim and a Christian Debate 8 Crucial Questions'', Minnesota, United States :

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, 2014. Co-authored with James R. White.

References

External links

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Official website
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